Hi, > Hi, > > Agreed with guillem that we'll decide this at the Extremadura > meeting next week, else we'll end up like the amd64 port with > flaming for the name choice in tech-ctte.. > > > >should be clear why current dpkg-architecture limits our choices. > > (emphasize on current) > > > <rant> > > Pardon me, but to me it looks outright stupid to let development be > > constrained by some perl script. > > Well it's free software, so we can change it to whatever we want =) > The big but is that it is also a very important interface, and changes > should be done with care. > > > I would want to install a Debian distribution compiled with > > -march=armv5te -mtune=xscale -Wa,-mcpu=xscale on a newer iPAQ > > and another one compiled with -march=armv4 -mtune=strongarm1100 > > on my older iPAQ. > I think we need to define what components we want in the naming scheme. So far I can see : Instruction Set Architecture (eg. ARMv4, ARMv5, MIPS32, MIPS64,...), endianess, base library (glibc, uclibc), optimization flags. L & L p2. -- goa is a state of mind
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